Black Dog Books Ananda Braxton-Smith Secrets of Carrick bk 3 ISBN: 9781742032184 RRP: $1895 Age : 12+ Key Words: Fantasy, Family, Fear, Loss Published: 1st May 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Mally is different from the rest of her family. Her brothers and sisters are brave, fearless, they will do what ever they want, when ever they want. Nothing holds them back. Mally is just the opposite, … Continue reading Ghostheart
Scholastic Australia James Phelan The Last 13 bk 3 ISBN: 9781742831862 RRP: $14.99 Age: 10+ Key Words: Action, Adventure, Dreams, Thriller Published: 1st February 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Sam reconnects with Xavier Dark and the two of them take the next part of the journey together to Berlin. Things are moving fast and having access to a private jet certainly helps when you have to journey … Continue reading 11
Scholastic Australia James Phelan The Last 13 bk 4 ISBN: 9781742831879 RRP: $14.99 Age: 10+ Key Words: Action, Adventure, Thriller Published: 1st March 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Sam and Xavier are in dire straights. Sam is convinced this is the end – his at the hands of Solaris. Then rescue comes in a very unexpected way. He was sure Alex was dead but now it looks … Continue reading 10
Michael Pryor Random House ISBN: 9780857982766 RRP: 10+ Age: $17.99 Key Words: Artificial Intelligence, Computers, Science Fiction Published: 1st April 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Bram was late home from music practice, these things happen but this time something is very wrong when he gets home. This is a moment he has been training for. For some reason a paranoid, super intelligence is out to get him. … Continue reading Machine Wars
Mac Park Scholastic Boy vs beast bk 9 ISBN: 9781921931680 RRP: $7.99 Age: 5+ Key Words: Fantasy, Action Published: 1st March 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Kai Maters is a Border Guard, it is his goal to become a Border Captain then a Border Master. The rules seem to have changed in Beastium, the beasts have changed. It is no longer a simple case of one weapon … Continue reading Rock Mutant
Matthew J Kirby Scholastic Infinity Ring bk 5 ISBN: 9780545387002 RRP: $14.99 Age: 8+ Key Words: History, Adventure Published: 1st Nov 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Bagdad has become a centre of learning in the Dark Ages. As well as merchants and explorers from all over the city houses many scholars. It is here that Sera, Dak and Riq find themselves for their next fix. They determine … Continue reading Cave of Wonders
Vivian French Walker Books Stargirl Academy bk 7 ISBN: 9781406349382 RRP: $11.95 Age: 7+ Key Words: Magic, Friendship, Christmas Published: 1st Dec 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Melody and Jackson are still hoping to get their final star and graduate from Stargirl Academy, but with the other girls already having got their stars the best friends are wondering if they will get their chance. They are so … Continue reading Melody & Jackson’s Christmas Spell
Anna Feinberg Stephen Michael King Allen and Unwin Part of the Figaro and Rumba series ISBN: 9781743314883 RRP: $14.99 Age: 7+ Key Words: Friendship, Crime Published: 1st Jan 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Figaro and Rumba are strange best friends, Figaro is a dog who likes to run and Rumba is a cat for whom song and dance are part of his life. Figaro wants to catch … Continue reading Figaro and Rumba and the Crocodile Cafe
Knife and Packer Scholastic Freak Street Series ISBN: 9781742836706 RRP: $10.99 Age: 7+ Key Words: Fun, Pirates, Adventure Published: 1st Feb 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell When you live on Freak Street the Pirateson’s are pretty much an average family. Sure their house is a boat, and they have a pet piranha. Patty Pirateson is more interested in skateboarding than doing pirate things and their dad is … Continue reading Meet The Piratesons
Stephen Pastis Candlewick Press Timmy Failure bk 2 ISBN: 9781406356342 RRP: $17.95 Age: 7+ Key Words: Humour, School Stories, Detective Stories Published: 25th Feb 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Timmy Failure believes himself to be the greatest detective ever and he is going to solve the biggest problem of the missing globe. There are many things he has to contend with along the way : a very … Continue reading Timmy Failure Now Look What You’ve Done
Matt De la Pena Scholastic Infinity Ring bk 4 ISBN: 9780545386999 RRP: $14.99 Age: 8+ Key Words: History, Action, Adventure Published: 1st June 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Sera, Dak and Riq find themselves back with the ancient Maya people. The Maya’s are a people who seem to know a great deal about the future but that doesn’t prevent them from being involved in one of the … Continue reading Curse of the Ancients
Ally Carter Hyperion Books Gallagher Girls bk 3 ISBN: 9781423116608 RRP: $17.99 Age: 12+ Key Words: Espionage, School Stories Published: 11th May 2010 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Cammie Morgan’s holiday has just gotten fun, or so she thinks when she gets to join her friend Macey McHenry on her dad’s campaign trail. Fun takes on another meaning when she has to draw on all her skills to … Continue reading Don’t Judge A Girl By Her Cover
Ally Carter Hyperion Books Gallagher Girls bk 2 ISBN: 9781423100065 RRP: $17.99 Age: 12+ Key Words: Espionage, Romance Published: 1st Dec 2008 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell The Josh disaster of last semester has left Cammie just wanting to have a quiet semester, after all using her spy skills to get her first boyfriend then being forced to give him up was quite enough. She even promises … Continue reading Cross My Heart & Hope to Spy
Ally Carter Hyperion Press Gallagher Girls bk 1 ISBN: 9781423100041 RRP: $19.99 Age: 12+ Key Words: Spy Story, Romance Published: 1st Apr 2007 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Cammie Morgan attends the exclusive Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a school that is not exactly what it appears to be. To the outside it looks like a snobby school for rich brats but behind the walls are classes … Continue reading I’d Tell You I Love You but Then I’d Have to Kill You
Rose Inserra Wombat Books Australian Girl Series ISBN: 9781921632389 RRP: $12.95 Age: 8+ Key Words: Environment, History, Friendship Published: 1st Nov 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Annabelle is very interested in turtles, in fact she is really determined to find the hatchlings that have gone missing. It’s a real mystery that no one seems to be able to figure out, not even the people at Marine World … Continue reading Annabelle & the Missing Turtles
Anna Branford & Linda Catchlove 9781921977589 ISBN: 9781921977589 RRP: $24.95 Age: 2+ Key Words: Family, Siblings, Pregnancy, Fairies Published: 1st Feb 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Lilli-Pilli’s mother is going to have a baby. Lilli-Pilli is very excited about having a baby sister, she knows it is going to be a sister because she can feel it in her wings. Lilli-Pilli is helping her dad make the … Continue reading Lilli-Pilli’s Sister
Chris Houghton Walker Books ISBN: 9781406342321 RRP: $24.95 Age: 3+ Key Words: Animal Stories Published: 1st March 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell There in the woods is a pretty bird, now Shh! because they have a plan to catch this bird. Unfortunately things don’t go quite according to plan. The three big companions think they know best, but sometimes it’s the little people that have the good … Continue reading Shhh! We Have A Plan
Alyson Noel Pan Macmillan The Soul Seekers bk 3 ISBN: 9781447206835 RRP: $16.99 Age: 12+ Key Words: Mythology, Romance Published: 4th July 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Daire Santos tried to kill Cade Richter but things didn’t go according to plan and she finds herself separated from everyone she loves, she is in the Upperworld seemingly trapped. She comes up with a plan because there is no … Continue reading Mystic
Felicity Carter & Louis Shea Scholastic Double Trouble bk 2 ISBN: 9781742838571 RRP: $7.99 Age: 6+ Key Words: Skateboarding, Twins, Humour Published: 1st Feb 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Tommy and Coop love skateboarding almost as much as they love pranking people. One day, Jed Michael’s, one of their skateboarding heroes announcing a competition where the winner gets to go on his show. The twins are so … Continue reading Skateboard Stars
Fiona Regan & Louis Shea Scholastic Double Trouble bk 1 ISBN: 9781742838564 RRP: $3.99 Key Words: Pranks, Twins, Family, School Age: 6+ Published: 1st Feb 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Tommy and Coop are twins who’s favourite thing to do is to pull pranks on people. They love pranking their parents, though it may sometimes have consequences they don’t like. They also love to prank at school, … Continue reading Prank Alert
Megan McDonald & Peter H Reynolds Candlewick Press Stink bk 3 ISBN: 9780763664244 RRP: $9.99 Age: 6+ Key Words: Humour, Smelly Published: 12th Feb 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Stink is super excited to be going on the school excursion because they are going to the Everybody Stinks exhibit at the Science Museum. Whilst there Stink discovers he has an amazing gift, he has a really good … Continue reading Stink and the World’s Worst Super-Stinky Sneakers
Megan McDonald & Peter H Reynolds Candlewick Press Stink bk 2 ISBN: 9780763664206 RRP: $9.99 Age: 6+ Key Words: Humour, Family, Friends Published: 12th Feb 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Stink uses his money to get himself a jawbreaker, but he soon finds himself disappointed as it doesn’t break his jaw. Stink decides his best course of action is to write a letter of complaint to the … Continue reading Stink and the Incredible Super-Galactic Jawbreaker
Megan McDonald & Peter H Reynolds Candlewick Press Stink bk 1 ISBN: 9780763664268 RRP: $9.99 Age 6+ Key Words: School Stories, Humour Published : 12th Feb 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Stink gets measured every morning, Stink is desperate to grow but the result is always the same. Until the one day it is different, the only problem is the difference is in the wrong direction, is … Continue reading Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid
Aleesah Darlison Walker Books Ash Rover series bk 1 ISBN: 9781922179029 RRP: $14.95 Age: 8+ Key Words: Fantasy, Action, Adventure Published: 1st Feb 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Ash Rover doesn’t want to be just looking after the cows, which goes someway to explaining how he was asleep on his post. He is rudely awakened by a rock dropping on his head, though it is no ordinary … Continue reading Ash Rover – Keeper of the Phoenix
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